Patent Law

Patently-O Bits and Bytes

By Dennis Crouch

• Nineteen new jobs have been posted to the Patently-O Job board in the past two weeks, including positions at MedImmune; Medtronic; Apple; the USPTO; Ventana Medical Systems; L'Oréal; Frost Brown Todd; Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack; Morgan Lewis; Michaud-Kinney; Marjama Muldoon; Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole; Infinity Pharmaceuticals; HP; Gen-Probe; and a Telecom Software Startup in Silicon Valley.
• This weekend, I watched the Facebook movie 'The Social Network.'  IP Law 360 is reporting that Quinn Emanuel should receive its $13 million in fees based on the $65 million settlement that Facebook reached with Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra.  The trio is challenging some elements of the settlement and had argued that Quinn's fees should be delayed until their dispute with facebook is fully resolved.
• In other Facebook news, the company has sued several companies for infringing its patents. The lawsuit is a retaliatory action against companies that previously sued Facebook for infringement.

Full post as published by Patently Obvious on November 11, 2010 (boomark / email).